Artonov 2022

The container folds, the body moves. Inspired by the Japanese art of folding paper, Origami is a breath-taking spectacle that uses sections of a shipping container to create different shapes that form the stage for the daredevil acrobatics of Justine Bernachon. Origami was born of a collaboration between choreographer Satchie Noro and set designer and scenographer Silvain Ohl.

Arpenteuses is an ephemeral performance that continually folds and unfolds. It convokes three beings that become the architects of a space that never ceases to reinvent itself. Three bodies meld together, melt into chairs, moving them and moving themselves. Bodies that enter, occupy and define the space in a constant quest for balance, tension and dialogue with an object and with another.

Nuage is an installation in choreography for a dancer and a musician and an imaginary cloud. A study in sound linked to the breath and the wind. A study in dance dedicated to the transformation of form and suspension, in a setting imagined by Silvain Ohl. This performance, created in 2013 and first performed by Satchie Noro,

An audiovisual performance for voice, cello, electronics, 2 lasers, diffused lights and haze. Dedicated to the architecture of the Samyn and Partners offices, the piece summons the memory of the place through light, sound and movement: what it used to be and what it is now but also what it could be, what it may become. The light and music composition evokes the passing of time, with the deteriorations and transformations it brings.

Silence, the new creation by choreographer Isabella Soupart, delves into the heart of the book 21 Lessons on the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari. For this production, she continues her collaboration with pianist Guy Vandromme and invites the Swedish-Swiss Silas Bieri to curate the sound design.

ARTONOV invites you to an exceptional musical encounter with Thomas Bloch, one of the very few professional glassharmonists in the world. A unique opportunity to hear the crystalline sounds of this unusual and little-known instrument. 

Composed of 37 glasses that turn on an axis, rubbed with moistened fingers, the glass harmonica was invented in 1761 by Benjamin Franklin, who had previously heard a musician play on wine glasses arranged on a table.

Rêve d’Égypte – a musical dream for a dream space! With the befitting backdrop of Emile Bockstael’s house, Belgian pianist and art historian Thérèse Malengreau proposes a recital retracing the history of Orientalism in music and art through the unique phenomenon of Egyptomania.

A starry sky in concert: SPECTRA renders a unique interpretation of our fascination with the firmament. In an adaptation specially made for this setting, SPECTRA positions eight musicians and loudspeakers over the length, breadth and depth of the Vanhaerents Art Collection.

In the exceptional setting of the Vanhaerents Art Collection, the dancer and choreographer Bintou Dembélé presents her latest work, Rite de Passage – solo II and imagines a « Maroon » dance for the dancer Meech that questions colonial heritage.

Stéphane Ferrandez presents Rakugo, a Japanese theatrical art born 400 years ago that skilfully combines gesture and spoken word. It takes no more than a minimalistic set, a few props and the artful mimics of the storyteller, invariably seated on the floor, to transport you into an imaginary universe.

In Nine Bells, Aya Suzuki moves among an array of nine metal bells like a Japanese Butoh dancer. American composer Tom Johnson not only set down the notes of this piece, but also the path the performer has to follow through the instruments. The result is a repetitive, hypnotic ritual for the eyes and ears. Aya uses Johnson’s original bells from 1979.

The Japanese art of theatre and dance Nō echoes the very life force invoked by the Stylus Phatasticus, a unique Western musical style born in the 17th century, in which all liberties seem permissible. Each moment brings about surprises, emotions, playfulness or even meditation.

Stéphane Ferrandez presents Rakugo, a Japanese theatrical art born 400 years ago that skilfully combines gesture and spoken word. It takes no more than a minimalistic set, a few props and the artful mimics of the storyteller, invariably seated on the floor, to transport you into an imaginary universe.

Each star is a sun similar to our own. And in infinite space, an infinity of stars are home to an infinity of worlds, invisible to the naked eye… A declaration of love for the beauty and the mystery of the Universe that constantly proves bigger and “more infinite” than we ever imagined, this concert-conference brings together the physicist, philosopher and well-known advocate of science, Etienne Klein with the musicians of Ensemble Oxalys.